Nathan Wade admitted to Congress that he was in on a plot with his lover, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, to take down Donald Trump.
Republicans subpoenaed Wade to get to the bottom of his involvement in the ‘politicized’ prosecution of the ex-president led by Willis.
The pair has been engulfed in scandal since their romantic and financial affair came to light after Willis appointed Wade ‘special prosecutor’ in the Georgia 2020 election interference case against Trump.
According to a transcript of his closed-door deposition before the House Judiciary Committee last week reviewed first by DailyMail.com, Wade said he was on her ‘search committee’ to find prosecutors to go after Trump.
And he sensationally admitted the committee was set up well before Willis took the DA office on January 1, 2021 – revealing she had a long-planned plot to take down Trump.
The two used to speak ‘daily’ disclosed Wade as she considered candidates for the top role, which she eventually gave to him despite their ongoing affair.
Wade was still married to his now ex-wife of 26 years Joycelyn until their divorce finalized in July.
‘We were tasked with trying to identify someone who would serve as lead counsel on the election interference investigation,’ he said.
‘Eventually, I guess the committee turned their guns on me and started trying to convince me to accept the role,’ Wade admitted.
He confirmed that the outreach occurred after the 2020 election ‘prior to [Willis] taking office’ as the district attorney.
Willis eventually secured an indictment for Trump and 18 of his GOP allies in August 2023 that the former president has blasted as a hoax and a ‘scam.’
Wade also said that he met with several officials in the Biden-Harris White House on at least two occasions.
But he did not elaborate on those meetings, skirting direct questions about the nature of the visits with official White House staff, including individuals in the White House Counsel’s office.
Wade also confirmed that he had meetings with the January 6 Congressional Committee, but he did not provide details.
The House Judiciary Committee has called Willis’ election interference case against Trump ‘politicized’ after it was revealed the two were dating as recently as last year.
The case has been on hold since June while a Georgia appeals court considers whether the lead prosecutor, Willis, should be disqualified over alleged misconduct tied to her romantic relationship with Wade, who stepped down in March.
The committee said he managed to get out of answering their questions by saying he ‘couldn’t recall’ or remember nearly 60 times during the closed-door session.
According to the transcript, he also admitted that he had no qualifications for the special prosecutor position that Willis appointed him to.
And he spurned questions about the ‘personal nature’ of his relationship with Willis.
Committee lawyers asked Wade if he was ‘ever concerned’ that if his relationship became public it would ’cause an issue with the case.’
‘So now I’m getting confused because I didn’t… I didn’t think I was coming here to answer questions about my personal life,’ he fired back.
Donald Trump has claimed Willis is attempting to interfere with the 2024 vote, after he pleaded not guilty to racketeering and other charges for allegedly attempting to overthrow the 2020 election in the swing state.
The case has been on hold since June while a Georgia appeals court considers whether the lead prosecutor, Willis, should be disqualified over alleged misconduct tied to her romantic relationship with Wade, who stepped down in March.
Earlier this month, Republicans tried to serve a subpoena to Wade, but they had no idea where he was.
He said in the transcript that he had turned his phone off in order to take a few days to ‘take care of his ankle’ after a sprain and also prep for a ‘meditation and arbitration’ he had coming up.
Willis has said her fling with Wade was a thing of the past, but police bodycam footage showed them together when Willis’s daughter Kinaya was arrested on August 24, 2024.
Trump has accused Willis of a ‘display of racial animus’ toward him, and has called her case ‘a calculated effort’ to bring flak against him and ‘away from herself.’
The pair looked remarkably like a couple a few over the summer in police bodycam footage obtained exclusively by DailyMail.com, filmed together at the scene of her pregnant daughter arrest for allegedly driving with a suspended license.
The footage shows them arriving in a black Ford SUV before approaching a group of cops at the roadside in Tyrone, Georgia.
The officers mistake the pair for Kinaya’s mom and dad but Willis corrects them, describing 51-year-old Wade – who stepped down as her special prosecutor when their affair came under public scrutiny – as ‘just a friend.’
Kinaya’s older sister Nia, 26 – passenger in her sibling’s silver Nissan Altima – had called their mom in the aftermath of the 7:03pm arrest.
By the time Willis and Wade pulled up, her daughter was already en route to the Fayette County Jail, 30 minutes south of Atlanta, on a misdemeanor charge of driving with a revoked or suspended license.
She was released later that day, and Wade has not been photographed publicly since.
Barnes, who is also an attorney, is representing Willis in the upcoming case, which the DA has branded as a bid by House Republicans to ‘obstruct a Georgia criminal proceeding and to advance outrageous misrepresentations.’
Word of her relationship with Wade first surfaced in January, leading to a litany of requests for documents related to his work on the ongoing Trump prosecution.
In a letter to the committee sent a few weeks ago, Barnes claimed that Willis had objected to Wade providing the documents, branding the demands ‘improper’
Barnes has also asked the DA’s office have a representative present at Wade’s interview, so Willis could ‘protect sensitive and confidential information related to ongoing criminal cases.’
‘Any interview of Mr. Wade could implicate secret grand jury information, confidential investigative sources and information protected by attorney-client, work produce and deliberative process privileges, among others,’ Barnes wrote.
The congressional probe, meanwhile, continues, as some continue to criticize as an effort by Trump’s allies to undermine Willis’ prosecution of the politician.
Her case took a hit earlier this month, when Georgia judge dismissed two criminal counts in the election interference case one other count against co-defendants who have also pleaded not guilty
Fulton County Judge Scott McAfee found that state prosecutors did not have the authority to bring those charges, which related to the alleged filing of false documents in federal court.
The ruling meant that five of the original 13 criminal counts against Trump in the indictment obtained last year have now been tossed out.
McAfee in March dismissed six other counts, including three against Trump.
Trump lawyer Steve Sadow in a statement said the recent ruling showed that Trump and his legal team ‘have prevailed once again.’